Chapter 26
Kim went underneath the awning shelter outside the administration building and closed the doors right behind her. It was still raining outside and a low rumbling of thunder echoed in the distance.
She got out the Kimmunicator and Wade came on.
"Wade, what's the sitch on Veruca?" Kim asked her friend on any updates on her school enemy.
"Hey, Kim and oh, do I have plenty of 'em!" Wade replied on-screen.
"First of all, you know when Mr. Salt made that 10-minute delay because he 'wasn't feeling well?" he then began his report.
"Yeah? I noticed it too, though something didn't look quite right with him…" Kim replied.
"You mean in the sick sense or in the evil plan sense?" Wade then asked Kim which sense Mr. Salt was on.
"I'd say in the evil plan sense." Kim grinned, knowing that she can slice through any evil plan with a piece of cake.
"More than likely, Kim! And get this! This whole Salt suspension trial thing was just a façade!" Wade continued on his stunning revelations of what the Kimmunicator captured.
Kim gasped, "A fake trial?" She then made a fist with one of her hands and pounded it against one of the storm gutters, "Grrrr! I was counting on this trial to make sure Veruca gets caught!"
Another boom of thunder echoed in the distance.
"Well, instead, Veruca's plan was on having you getting caught when the trial finished up, not the other way around!" Wade explained to Kim as he turned his computer monitor around to the viewing screen of the Kimmunicator.
The screen showed an entire colorful layout of the main room of the administration building: chairs that everyone was sitting in, the two desks where Kim and Veruca were sitting in, and the desks where the school board sat. "See, when the trial ends, all Veruca has to do is to press a button and…."
As quick as it came, steel bars came out of Kim's desk along with a steel top on it and a steel bottom.
"A cage!" Kim exclaimed, "so not only I have been duped about the trial but now I'm gonna be trapped by that deb? Ughh….this is totally an unfair move by her!"
"Ohh…." Wade shook his head, "….that's not the worst thing about that heiress' plan…"
A crackling bolt of lightning flashed momentarily behind Kim followed with a loud roar of thunder.
"It's not?" Kim questioned. She wanted to know every detail of Veruca's devious plan, no matter how over-the-top it may be.
"Listen to this, Kim." Wade insisted while putting on headphones and connecting the sound system from the video collected by the security camera to the Kimmunicator. "And I must warn you, it would literally make you gag and, yes, even vomit. Mr. Salt showed this version of Veruca's album to the board members and several of them broke out sweats. He even said so himself that he barfed during that song. So you'd better put on your earbuds for this!"
Kim lightly laughed, "Oh, c'mon, Wade! I've handled Drakken's rapping and the Tweebs singing horribly during my birthday party last year. The barf-factor's gonna be probably low."Upon closer inspection, though, she saw that Wade was not laughing at all. She took out her earbuds from her capri pants pocket and put the metallic outlet in the Kimmunicator. She then put the earbud pieces in both her ears.
"Okay, Wade…play it…." Kim insisted on the playing of the song.
Wade gulped and played that part of Veruca's song that he recorded from the security camera.
Kim is an utter failure
A total failure
She can't do anything
The sound of the awful singing from the peanut debutante reached Kim's ears. She began to sweat hard and began to clench her stomach with one of her hands. It wasn't the lyrics that was making her sweat and feeling nauseated but it was the appalling pop-musical sounds Veruca made that made her feel that way.
"Oh no, Wade! The barf factor's now at a ten right now!" Kim groaned while clenching her stomach.
She can't even sing!
She needs to go back
Confine her to her home in playing baby dolls
At that moment, she felt something come up her digestive system and reach her mouth. She chewed on the remnants of the food system and identified it as the Middleton High mystery meat that she ate yesterday.
"Ulp..."
It'll totally complete her fall
Her fall from grace!
She has a totally ugly face!
A face so ugly no boy would want her
As her boyfriend! (evil laugh)
Kim couldn't take it anymore! She was ready to vomit the mystery meat any minute now. Then, the segment to that song miraculously ended. It was off the Kimmunicator. She swallowed the digested mystery meat back down to her stomach.
"Wade….that was absolutely the worst thing I've ever heard in my entire life! It goes way beyond the realm of gorchy!" Kim exclaimed while removing the earbuds from her ears, "Worse than Dr. Drakken's rapping, worse than the Tweebs singing for my birthday, worse than…well….anything! Veruca has obviously committed the worst crimes of all…against music and against tastes in music! I'd call it super-super-gorchy!"
"Even worse is that if you are captured, that deb is going to play that music…..endlessly!"
When she heard the words endlessly...her heart sank like a stone in water.
"That's why we need to find a way to trap Veruca like a mouse!" Wade replied.
Kim understood, but then asked, "Won't anything, like record our conversion or something. Like, the Veruca Virus especially?"
Wade smiled when he heard Kim say those two words, "We won't have to worry about the Virus for a long time to come!"
"Hmmm…." Kim then said with interest, "how long?"
"Let's just say that they'll have to get used to you kicking Drakken on an infinite loop for several months!" Wade smirked, relaxing on the chair.
"Well, getting back to the sitch at hand, I don't have any evidence against Veruca and her father's gonna let her loose in a few minutes!" Kim complained.
"Well, Kim, you obviously have Veruca's attempt at kidnapping and torturing you through music. Also, there were a few federal agents that spoke to me. They wanted me to communicate with you.
"Okay, Wade, put 'em through!" Kim insisted as Wade made the proper connections to the agents._Back in the building, Veruca was still sitting on her chair at the desk, tapping her high-heeled diamond-tipped stiletto impatiently. She saw that her father was discussing some matters with the other members and then back at the desk that Kim sat in.
My yPhone needs some humiliating pictures of Kim from this trial! It's the perfect time to do it but she's not here as of the moment!
She made a twirling motion with her turned around to one of her well-dressed lawyers and whispered in his ear "If Kim doesn't make it back here within the next five minutes, call up that selection of bodyguards and servants and search for her! Either way, I am going to have that lazy swine of a cheerleader in my possession before the day ends! You got it!"
The lawyer whispered in Veruca's ear "Yes, O Holy Princess!" He then took out his cell phone to call up one of the cell phones of the servants and whispered, "It's time!" After that brief four-second call, he put his cell phone back in the pocket of his well-tailored pants.
A low rumble of thunder boomed in the distance as the rain continued to pour. Kim looked around and the rain was beginning to slacken up.
She looked at her Kimmunicator. The image of Wade was replaced by the two federal agents, Agent Mack and Agent Macke.
"And you are?" Kim then asked the two figures in black.
"This is Agent Mack and I am Agent Macke!" Macke introduced himself and his partner. "We're here to talk about the decline of Veruca! But you're gonna have to listen to us!"
Kim seemed interested in this "Okay…I'm all ears!"
"Okay, Miss Possible, you need to take down Veruca's empire by piecemeal." Agent Mack suggested to Kim.
Kim raised her eyebrow, "And why piecemeal?"
"Because Veruca has a variety of factors going or her, mostly her fame, money, the way she manipulates others and systems of government at her whim, and the 'fans' that she has across the country…" Agent Mack explained why the difficulty would be high in taking on Veruca.
"And that last part concerns me because….?" Kim asked this question
"It's because they are well known to making death threats to any celebrity that intrudes in Veruca's way." Agent Mack explained.
Kim widened her eyes hearing this, "Of course! Britinia told me about this when her pop album rose in the charts over Veruca's almost a year ago!"
"Exactly, Miss Possible! So I'd suggest for you to take down the first of Veruca's three pillars of her power: the School Board!" Agent Mack replied this submission of ideas to Kim.
Kim thought about it for a moment, "Hmm….. I know her dad's head of the school board and that he seems to be under the whims of Veruca…"
Agent Mack smiled, "Not for long, Miss Possible! We've already signed the termination papers of Henry Salt's position on the board and we did the same for his other cohorts earlier. Only problem is, red tape has obviously slowed us down.""Red tape?" Kim scoffed with a heavy breath.
"Ma'am, it's Washington! We ALWAYS have to suffer under red tape!" Agent Macke replied, shrugging his shoulders. "Anyways, we're gonna cut it back to Wade now!" Wade then came back on-screen and warned Kim.
"You need everything you can to foil this current plan of Veruca's, Kim! You don't have enough time!"
As those words were said, two cars suddenly came up the side parking lot leading to the back of the administration building. Kim recognized the fluttering purple flags with the golden trim S emblem on them!
A bolt of lightning flashed momentarily followed with a loud roar of thunder.
"You're right! I don't have much time left! I gotta go now!" Kim replied as she ended the conversation with Wade and headed toward the administration building.